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Netflix has attempted to create its own The Great British Bake Off with Blue Ribbon Baking Championship, but some viewers say it’s ‘blasphemous’ to even put the two in the same sentence. To these people, I am sorry for my first sentence. Over the course of eight episodes, ten blue ribbon-winning bakers from state fairs across the US will battle it out for the chance to win $100,000 (£75,600) and the biggest ‘Best In Fair’ blue ribbon ever.

The competition is judged by cake experts Sandra Lee, Bill Yosses and Bryan Ford, and hosted by a ’00s Hollywood star who’s, uh, intimately familiar with the ins and outs of baking – American Pie actor Jason Biggs . Jason, 46, is best known for playing Jim Levenstein in the raunchy high school comedy and three of its (many) sequels. In the film’s most infamous scene – from which it gained its title – nervous virgin Jim attempts to gauge what it might be like to lie with a woman.



.. by making love to a pie.

The Blue Ribbon Baking Championship, thankfully, is in on the joke. ‘Take it from someone who knows,’ Jason quips during the show’s introduction, ‘that is a very attractive slice.’ Speaking to USA Today , Jason described how he came to be involved in hosting a baking competition.

‘I’ve really wanted to host something in the food world. Of course, there’s the wink at the camera and the audience with me as a baking show host. And whenever I can’t think of something to say, I always have a pie joke in .

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